 
May 27, 2010
California Sues AIDS Group for Illegal Use of $2.8 Million
California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. filed a lawsuit to close the Monterey County AIDS Project (MCAP) for its alleged illegal use of more than $2.8 million in HIV/AIDS funding, KCBA reports.
MCAP’s former officers and directors used $1.8 million in HIV/AIDS funds earmarked to provide housing for people living with HIV and another $1 million was misspent on personal expenses such as expensive restaurant meals and credit card and personal mortgage payments, Brown said.
According to the article, in 1999, MCAP listed assets of $2.1 million, which included $1.8 million granted from a local resident’s estate with the restriction that it be used for housing people living with HIV/AIDS. In 2007, only $205,000 was left. MCAP did in fact provide housing for HIV-positive people, but at a lower level than the records indicate.
Brown’s lawsuit names 16 former MCAP directors and officers who mismanaged the organization’s assets and seeks the return of those assets.
“The duty of these officers and directors was to protect the charity’s assets so the funds could be used for the support of very sick people,” Brown said. “Instead, they violated their trust and spent the money any way they wanted.”
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Kenneth Patterson, Birmingham, AL, 2010-06-01 21:30:17
I'm with you, Fiona. So much of this type of behavior exists with our "service" providers. I wonder if this is just a part of human nature. Maybe we need to move forward with the expectation that people we trust will not always live up to those expectations. Sad, but true.
Jason Troia, Monterey, CA, 2010-06-01 21:07:57
I used to volunteer for MCAP when I was a teenager. It sickens me to read about such abhorent behavior. I hope the state strings up all of the directors who are implicated.
MAS, Lawndale, CA, 2010-06-01 19:56:00
When I hear about wrong doings like this, it tears at my heart. It tears my heart, becasue so many other non-profit groups are struggling today for funding, then you have groups like MCAP who do things like they have done.
Fiona Revell, Cambridge, England, 2010-05-30 13:42:43
It disgusted me when I hear this kind of abuse of trust and position. Why is it that people feel they can take money there 2 help those who r already vunerable when (by job definition) they profess 2 care? Where does the greed end?
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